I think he is a consumer and not a reseller and he is probably comparing his prices he gets from them to Verisign's prices ;o)
Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net Need Advertising? Try DeerSearch.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramy Nabil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:46 PM Subject: Re: 2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors > FIVE dollars -less- PER DOMAIN... ???!!! > You get the domain for US$5 / year? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I dont know about you, but I have had excellent service at enom. As a > > matter of fact, I got TWO responses from them today alone (from emails > > I sent only a few hours ago). > > > > I loved my old tucows registrar (fantastic customer service), but when I > > can register a domain (and have full control of many different services, > > including instant DNS changes) for FIVE dollars -less- PER DOMAIN... > > PRICE DOES MATTER. (Especially when you have hundreds of > > domains) > > > > -Kenn ('now where did I put my 2 cents...') > > www.SiteLance.com > > > > > > > > On 6 Sep 2002 at 20:22, Csongor Fagyal wrote: > > > > > > > > Mark Petersen wrote: > > > Boy, how many times has this been hashed out in the past? > > > Check the archives bud. > > > And, at the risk of being highly redundant, *price* is not everything. > > > How's the service at Enom? I wonder if they steal customers out from under their resellers like > > > Register.Com does? > > > Humm.... ;o) > > > -Mark > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent:Friday, September 06, 2002 10:08 AM > > > Subject:2 more Q's- Affiliate/Mirrors > > > > > > Well thanks for that but it brings up more questions. We used to get an "Affiliate Rebate" and a > > > "Programs Rebate." but haven't gotten either for almost two years. Are any rebates still > > > available? > > > > > > Is there any way to get the wholesale prices lower or does Tucows/OpenSRS have any plans to > > > cut prices? > > > > > > I've been contacted by enom to resell for them and they offer lower pricing than OpenSRS. I > > > haven't looked seriously into it yet, but it seems like our costs are going up while business has > > > been flat for the past year. We need to cut costs wherever we can. I always liked the > > > open/community atmosphere of Tucows but it seems to me that it is becoming more corporate > > > and less distinguished from everyone else out there. So why should we stick around if it is just > > > the same corporate stuff with less benefits and higher costs? What distinguishes Tucows these > > > days from Microsoft or Verisign? > > > > > > I'm not trying to cause problems, I just see our costs increasing (such as bandwidth for the > > > mirrors) and the benefits declining here while we are struggling to stay in business - like a lot of > > > other little guys. We've also had to cut domain registration costs dramatically to be competitive. > > > Some of these guys offer domains for less than we pay wholesale to OpenSRS. At these rates it > > > ends up costing us more in wholesale cost, time and effort to handle domains than it would to let > > > someone else do it. > > > Wow, my favourite topic :-) Our biggest competitor is selling joker.com domains for $12/year.... > > > yet our revenues are increasing, so price is not everything, that is correct. > > > > > > OTOH what about names4ever.com? They have a similar API like Open SRS has. $7.95/year. ;-) > > > > > > And this also tells me that modular software design is cool. Somewhere in your code (if you have > > > your own API) there is a line like > > > my $result = ®ister_domain (\%domain_data); > > > > > > Now make that > > > my $result = ®ister_domain ($my_current_registar, \%domain_data); > > > > > > And that's it - provided you can mass-transfer all of your domains. ;-) > > > > > > - Cs. > > > > > > >
